UFO secrets SOLVED: Experts reveal if 2018 is the year of ALIEN discovery

EXPERTS have had their say on the significance of 2017's UFO sightings and whether they mean an alien breakthrough could be imminent in an exclusive chat with Daily Star Online.

By Callum Hoare 

It has been a fascinating year in the search for alien life.

We have seen objects appear close to the International Space Station, UFOs stalking planes in Merseyside and groundbreaking NASA discoveries.

So, with many believing 2018 could be a breakthrough year, Daily Star Online has sat down with two world-leading experts to hear their thoughts.

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UFOs: Will we see alien life in 2018?

Nick Pope is a former Ministry of Defence employee best known for the role he undertook in investigating UFO sightings for the British Government.

In an exclusive chat, Nick revealed what he thought of a clip – shown above – allegedly showing a UFO.

Observers believe the footage shows a US spy plane encountering a 130ft flying object with 20 flashing lights near Cyprus.

And Nick claims it may be genuine, admitting: “This is an absolutely fascinating video.

“This is a case from the MoD's UFO files. Not only did I work on these real life X-Files, but I've been the public face of a ten-year project to declassify and release most of this material.

“The investigation into this incident was undertaken by my predecessors, but I'm aware of the case. It was a genuine unknown.

“Incidents like this, where there were multiple military witnesses and highly classified investigations show that whatever the truth about UFOs, the mystery raises important defence, national security and air safety issues.

"It's a perfect illustration of how the media and the public were misled.”

Despite hope it could change in the year to come, there has been a lot of concern among the UFO community as to whether NASA is hiding evidence of extraterrestrial life from the public.

The video below is just one of many from this year that space boffins claim are attempted cover-ups.

Nick believes these kind of clips have a lot of contributing factors as to whether they are UFOs, but also believes NASA has no reason to hide anything.

He said: “It's notoriously difficult to judge the size, distance and speed of an object in space.

“I think UFO hunters misunderstand agencies such as NASA and ESA. Far from being the sort of organisations that would cover up evidence of an extraterrestrial presence, they'd shout it from the rooftops.

“These people want to find aliens, not hide evidence of them."

Partly agreeing with Nick, Philip Mantle believes that with the technology available these days, we should be doing a better job at capturing UFOs.

Mantle, a highly regarded and active British researcher of UFOs, said: “The question is why, despite the millions of cameras that are available do we still have poor quality film and photos of alleged UFOs?

“The fact is that the percentage of UFO reports that remain unidentified is well under 1%.

"In short, genuine UFO sightings are extremely rare, therefore the chances of actually capturing one of film is almost, but not quite, impossible."

The video below – that appears to show a mysterious green orb floating above a mountain – is an example of UFO footage captured poorly, Philip believes.

He added: “In our modern society today there are CCTV cameras everywhere and countless millions of mobile phones that have as a built in feature the ability to to take still photos and videos.

“But when it comes to UFO video footage the results, and let's be honest, are poorer than ever.”

Nick agrees that while there have been an increase in the number of sightings, many of them are in fact, far from UFOs.

He said: “Firstly, there's a lot of hoaxing in this subject. However, even where we can be sure the images are genuine, they're often indistinct, and ambiguous.

“In most cases these are misidentifications of aircraft, drones, satellites, meteors, fireballs, stars and planets, Chinese lanterns, weather balloons and all sorts of other other objects and phenomena.

“In other cases, they're the result of lens flare, other reflections, dust or dirt on the lens, or a technical problem with the camera.”

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MIKE MASTERSON: UFOs are back

By Mike Masterson

Some major news organizations reported the other day that our government has been actively investigating UFOs in an effort known as the "Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program."

One story, by reporter Eli Rosenberg of the Washington Post, said this previously under-the-radar program, which resurrected much of the mission behind the government's long-defunct Project Blue Book (that explored essentially the same reports of unexplained aerial phenomenon) was in full swing between 2007 and 2012. Some aspects of it continue.

A compelling story contained in the report kept under wraps by the Pentagon until this month details the experience of former U.S. Navy Cmdr. David Fravor, who during his time in service said he witnessed a UFO.

It was Nov. 14, 2004, when Fravor was leading a squadron of F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets in an exercise off the southern California coastline when he saw an object the size of his plane and shaped like a Tic-Tac.

"It was a real object, it exists and I saw it," he told the reporter, emphatically adding that it was "something not from the earth."

The story said he was ordered to head about 60 miles west of his squadron's location to investigate unidentified flying objects that were descending from 80,000 to 20,000 feet before disappearing. On scene, Fravor said they could see the object, flying around a frothy patch of whitewater in the ocean.

"A white Tic-Tac, about the same size as a Hornet, 40 feet long with no wings," Fravor described to Rosenberg. "Just hanging close to the water." The object created no impressions on the water. Pilots pursued the object.

"As I get closer, as my nose is starting to pull back up, it accelerates and it's gone," Fravor said. "Faster than I'd ever seen anything in my life. We turn around, say let's go see what's in the water and there's nothing. Just blue water."

Fravor said as his plane headed back to the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier, a separate crew headed out to search. They were able to track it for about 90 seconds and shoot video. He said his superiors didn't seem that interested. So, in what's become normal fashion from those who don't share similar experiences firsthand, they took a ribbing from their colleagues. He didn't talk about it much afterwards, Fravor said.

Fravor retired in 2006 and later shared the story with family and some who asked about it. Then in 2009 a government official contacted him while doing "an unofficial investigation." Luis Elizondo, an intelligence officer who later contacted him, "ran the secretive program at the Department of Defense that was just disclosed," Rosenberg wrote.

Interestingly, Elizondo also has since left the government and works for the private To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science, which hopes to further promote UFO research. Elizondo is a large part of why the story is in the news; he was responsible for the release of three UFO videos from the Pentagon, including the video made on the same day and place as Fravor's experience.

Fravor said he realizes sharing his story has subjected him to some good-natured teasing but believes what he witnessed should be more closely studied.

"I don't think I was a nutjob as an officer in the Navy. I wasn't drunk, I don't do drugs. I got a good night's rest, it was a clear day," he told the reporter. "I think someone should have looked into it. Having talked to some of the other folks, it's a big frustration that it's coming out now and wasn't discussed back in 2004."

Fact is, Fravor's story especially resonates with me after my experience living at Fort Chaffee in 1957. I was 10 years old and had headed just before darkness fell with my 7-year-old brother, Grant, to ogle a firetruck that arrived with red lights flashing to extinguish a blaze three blocks down the street from our home.

We watched for 10 or 15 minutes until I looked up to see it had become fully dark. Knowing we'd be in trouble, I grabbed his hand and we began hurrying back to the house when we arrived beneath a streetlight intersection and something made me look up.

There, sitting silently a few hundred feet above us, was a large, glowing sphere that was pulsing light from bright to slightly dimmer. I asked my brother to look up and he immediately became frightened, asking what the massive thing was.

As surely as Fravor saw what he did in 2004, I knew what I was witnessing.

We watched for less than a minute as this brilliant mystery hovered. It seemed so odd for something this large not to be making a sound. Then it began to move slightly and in literally a flash, this glowing oval zipped over the horizon.

So when I read so many highly credible stories like Fravor's and realize there are untold numbers out there with similar untold accounts, I realize there is so much more about this impossibly complex universe comprised of energy frequencies we don't comprehend.

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• Mike Masterson is a longtime Arkansas journalist. 
• Email him at mmasterson@arkansasonline.com.

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Ancient astronomical observatory discovered in Peru

500 years before the Egyptians, an ancient civilization in Peru built incredible Pyramids · 

Excavation efforts at the archaeological site of Espiritu Pampa, in the Cusco region in Peru, resulted in the discovery of huge stone walls, an astronomical observatory, and spaces with animal teeth, silver objects, ceramic vessels, tupus, and other evidence of the Wari and Inca cultures.

Specialists of the Decentralized Directorate of Culture of Cusco (DDCC) who maintain meticulous work in Espíritu Pampa, located in the jungle of Vilcabamba district, La Convención province, confirmed the recent findings.

Illustrated here are some of the recently excavated artifacts belonging to the ancient Wari Culture, Peru.

Images credit: ANDINA/Difusión

Javier Fonseca, an archaeologist who heads the multidisciplinary team, explained that the walls of a huge temple form a letter D, a characteristic feature which makes it clear that this architecture is typical of the Wari culture that originated in Ayacucho and extended all the way to Cusco.

In the center of the building, archaeologists discovered another small structure that also has the shape of the letter D, which because of its symbolic and expressive location, is considered to have served as an astronomical observatory or a place where the ancient Wari performed magical and religious rituals.

Inside the interior of the large structure archaeologists also discovered two spaces built with small stone slabs.

Images credit: ANDINA/Difusión

Fragments of animal remains were discovered inside, together with two ceramic bottles of notable Wari style, a silver pectoral and a crown or silver headdress.

One of the bottles of the ancient Wari depicts the face of a human being characterized by enormous eyes, nose, and mouth.

However, the most striking detail say researchers, is the crown that is painted on the head, which indicates that Espiritu Pampa was occupied by characters of the ruling elite during the peak of the Wari culture.

On the side of the large enclosure in the shape of the letter D, an Inca signature structure was discovered by experts, with quadrangular and rectangular design, inside which were pins (called tupus), silver needles and ceremonial ceramics.

All these artifacts belonging to pre-Hispanic cultures will be submitted to the conservation process at DDCC’s Physical Chemistry Unit for subsequent investigation.

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Researchers find the oldest ‘Marine Monster’ that once lived on Antarctica

It is a 150 million-year-old carnivorous marine reptile that exceeded six meters in length. It was discovered in the Antarctic Peninsula, at a new paleontological site located 113 kilometers southwest of the Marambio Base.

As you’ve probably found out by now, Antarctica was a really different place in the distant past.

Despite the fact that Antarctica we know today is covered in snow and ice, millions of years ago, this place was teeming with life.

Now, researchers have discovered the fossil remains of a carnivorous marine reptile that lived 150 million years ago on Antarctica.

It is a plesiosaur more than six meters long.

Dr. Gouiric Cavalli, Dr. José O’Gorman and technicians Juan José Moly and Leonel Acosta Burllaile camped in this new paleontological site for 40 days.

Image Credit: CtyS 

The discovery is of great importance as it is the first record of a plesiosaur of the Jurassic period in Antarctica. The remains were excavated by paleontologists from the University of La Matanza (Argentina) in the Antarctic Peninsula, at a new paleontological site located 113 kilometers southwest of the Marambio Base.

Paleontologist José Patricio O’Gorman, a researcher at the Museo de la Plata (MLP) and CONICET, told the CtyS agency “this plesiosaur record is 80 million years older than what was initially known for Antarctica.”

“It was the first paleontological campaign that we carried out in this outcrop, which is like a frozen, 150 million-year-old sea in an excellent state of conservation”, highlighted the main author of the study that was accepted to be published in the scientific journal Comptes Rendus Palevol.

Dr. Soledad Gouiric Cavalli, MLP and CONICET specialist in the study of Jurassic creatures, told the CtyS Agency that “when walking through the deposit we found a great diversity of fish, ammonites, some bivalves, but we did not expect to find a plesiosaurus of such antiquity; it was amazing”.

The excavation site is located 113 kilometers southwest of the Marambio Base.

Image Credit: CtyS

“The find is quite extraordinary because the site does not have the type of rocks in which you can find materials preserved in three dimensions, as is the case of the vertebrae of this marine reptile,” explained the researcher.

The area where the discovery was made can only be reached after a two-hour flight by helicopter from the Marambio Base, so the researchers highlighted the excellent logistics provided by the Argentine Antarctic Institute (IAA).

Dr. Marcelo Reguero pointed out that “these rich and unique deposits in marine Jurassic vertebrates belong to the time when Antarctica was part of the Gondwana continent and was next to Australia, New Zealand, India, Madagascar, Africa and South America.”

The temperature of the seas was much higher 150 million years ago and the world map was very different.

According to Dr. José O’Gorman, this plesiosaurus, besides being the first of its kind in the Jurassic in Antarctica, serves as evidence in favor of the possibility of the dispersal of these reptiles by means of a passage that existed between Africa and Antarctica, which at that time had just separated.

Source: CTyS

Featured image by Rodrigo-Vega

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Meet Cass A. It’s what’s left after a star exploded as a supernova, some 11,000 light-years away. This colorful image from Chandra X-ray Observatory shows the location of different elements, newly released by the explosion. We can see the location of these elements, because each produces X-rays within narrow energy ranges.

Image via Chandra.

Chandra X-ray Observatory released a new wonderful image (above) this month of Cassiopeia A, a well-studied supernova remnant. Cass A is what is left of a star that exploded and that must have appeared in Earth’s sky some 300 years ago. The expanding cloud of material left by the supernova now measures approximately 10 light-years across from our earthly perspective. What’s cool about this X-ray image are different colors, which show the presence of different elements, including silicon (red), sulfur (yellow), calcium (green) and iron (purple). These are the elements in our bodies and all around us on Earth and in space. They are indeed created inside stars and released to space by supernovae. The blast wave from the Cass A explosion is seen as the blue outer ring. 

A statement from Chandra said:

Astronomers have long studied exploded stars and their remains — known as ‘supernova remnants’ — to better understand exactly how stars produce and then disseminate many of the elements observed on Earth, and in the cosmos at large.

Here’s a breakdown of the colors in the new X-ray image of Cassiopeia A. Silicon (red), sulfur (yellow), calcium (green) and iron (purple).

Image via Chandra.

Be sure to view this one larger. | This is a very interesting graphic, showing where the elements in our bodies – and all around us – come from.

Image via Chandra.

Bottom line: A new X-ray image from Chandra shows different colors, showing the release of different elements, including silicon (red), sulfur (yellow), calcium (green) and iron (purple). These elements may eventually find their way into new planets, and perhaps new living creatures.

Via Chandra X-Ray Obervatory

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J. William Schopf and colleagues from UCLA and the University of Wisconsin analyzed the microfossils with a cutting-edge technique called secondary ion mass spectroscopy.

Image via UCLA.

This month, scientists from UCLA and the University of Wisconsin–Madison announced the results of their analysis of rock samples found decades ago in Western Australia. They say the rocks contain fossils of 3.465-billion-year-old microorganisms, the oldest ones known. The study’s lead author – paleontologist J. William Schopf of UCLA – collected the fossils in 1982 and interpreted them then as early life. Critics had argued they were just odd minerals that only looked like biological specimens. The new study shows that two of the species appear to have performed a primitive form of photosynthesis, another apparently produced methane gas, and two others appear to have consumed methane and used it to build their cell walls.

Thus, according to these scientists, the new findings show the microfossils are indeed biological. Plus, they said, the fossils provide:

… strong evidence to support an increasingly widespread understanding that life in the universe is common.

Their work was published December 18, 2017 in the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

These scientists say their work strengthens the case for life existing elsewhere in the universe because, they say, it shows a diverse group of organisms had already evolved extremely early in the Earth’s history. That early earthly life — combined with our knowledge of the vast number of stars in the universe and the growing understanding that planets orbit so many of them — suggests life is common in the universe. Schopf commented in a statement:

… it would be extremely unlikely that life formed quickly on Earth, but did not arise anywhere else.

The microfossils came from the Apex Chert, a rock formation in Western Australia. This area is among the oldest and best-preserved rock deposits in the world.

Image via John Valley/ UW-Madison.

An epoxy mount containing a sliver of a nearly 3.5-billion-year-old rock from Australia’s Apex Chert deposit.

Image by Jeff Miller/ UW-Madison.

The scientists say their study is the most detailed ever conducted on microorganisms preserved in such ancient fossils. They said their study is:

… the first to establish what kind of biological microbial organisms they are, and how advanced or primitive they are.

The study describes 11 microbial specimens from five separate taxa. According to these scientists, some represent now-extinct bacteria and microbes from a domain of life called Archaea, while others are similar to microbial species still found today.

The scientists analyzed the microorganisms at the Wisconsin Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer Lab (WiscSIMS) in Madison. It is one of just a few places in the world where this type of work can be done. Secondary ion mass spectroscopy revealed the ratio of carbon-12 to carbon-13 isotopes in the fossils.

The scientists then were able to use this information to determine how the microorganisms lived. The study’s co-author, geoscientist John Valley of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said:

The differences in carbon isotope ratios correlate with their shapes. Their C-13-to-C-12 ratios are characteristic of biology and metabolic function.

When these fossils were formed, these scientists said, there was very little oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere. In fact, oxygen would have been poisonous to these microorganisms, and would have killed them, they said. Oxygen first appeared on Earth approximately half a billion years later, before its concentration in our atmosphere increased rapidly starting about 2 billion years ago. Thus, at the time these ancient microorganisms were alive, advanced photosynthesis didn’t exist yet.

The scientists also said the very existence of the rocks they analyzed is remarkable. That’s because the average lifetime of a rock exposed on Earth’s surface is about 200 million years. William Schopf commented that, when he began his career, there was no fossil evidence of life dating back farther than 500 million years ago. He added:

The rocks we studied are about as far back as rocks go.

An example of one of the microfossils discovered in a sample of rock recovered from the Apex Chert. A new study used sophisticated chemical analysis to confirm the microscopic structures found in the rock are biological.

Image via J. William Schopf via UW-Madison.

Schopf also said:

By 3.465 billion years ago, life was already diverse on Earth; that’s clear — primitive photosynthesizers, methane producers, methane users. These are the first data that show the very diverse organisms at that time in Earth’s history, and our previous research has shown that there were sulfur users 3.4 billion years ago as well.

This tells us life had to have begun substantially earlier and it confirms that it was not difficult for primitive life to form and to evolve into more advanced microorganisms.

Schopf said scientists still don’t know how much earlier life might have begun. But, he said:

… if the conditions are right, it looks like life in the universe should be widespread.

Geoscientist John Valley, left, and research scientist Kouki Kitajima collaborate in the Wisconsin Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer Lab (WiscSIMS).

Photo via Jeff Miller/ University of Wisconsin.

Bottom line: Scientists analyzed fossil microorganism specimens from 3.465 billion years ago, providing strong evidence to support an increasingly widespread understanding that life in the universe is common.

Source: SIMS analyses of the oldest known assemblage of microfossils document their taxon-correlated carbon isotope compositions

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Why people lie about being abducted by aliens

Harley Tamplin for Metro.co.uk

Hoaxes are common and even easier to create than ever with modern technology

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Some people have gone through their entire lives adamant that they shared an encounter with a genuine, real-life alien.

Others have produced what they claim is definitive proof of extra-terrestrial life – blurry video clips of mysterious figures, or unexplained images purportedly showing UFOs in the sky. But for every account that ufologists deem worthy of further investigation, countless hoaxes are invented to shame, embarrass or poke fun at a community desperate to make an historic breakthrough.

These can range from little white lies that are instantly dismissed by experts to scandals that rock the community having been regarded as truthful for decades.

What isn’t a mystery to researchers is why people go to the trouble of attempting to fool them.

The Rendlesham Forest incident is the UK’s most famous sighting According to Philip Mantle, a world renowned UFO researcher and author with 40 years in the field, there are three reasons why people lie about alien sightings.

They are simply to create ‘mischief’, to make money by selling their story to media outlets, or to make UFO experts look gullible and foolish.

 Mr Mantle told Metro.co.uk: ‘It can be damaging when a hoax does slip through the net and appears on TV or in newspapers. It does cast a shadow on that subject.

‘There is also a small number of researchers who will never admit it is a hoax..

‘They have such a strong belief that there is no amount of evidence that will prove to them it is a fake.’

Plenty of people lie about seeing UFOs

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Mr Mantle has a ‘guilty until proven innocent’ policy, regarding any ‘evidence’ he receives with the utmost suspicion.

Such an attitude is even more important in an age where anyone can edit or adapt footage and photographs, making cons even harder to uncover.

5 most searched selfies of 2017 have some crazy stories behind them Mr Mantle added: ‘There needs to be more diligence now then there ever was. But equally, the tools to investigate claims are more readily available.

‘I think those that have been a hoax, I have managed to show that is exactly what they were. But we are all human and they can slip through the net.

‘A lot of them are not deliberate hoaxes but genuine mistakes, or it might be an individual who is sceptical who will conduct a hoax to show how gullible UFO experts are.’

Larry Warren has been accused of lying about witnessing the UFO at Rendlesham Forest

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When a possible fake story does slip through the net – and when the suspected hoax is a significant account of one of Britain’s most famous UFO sightings – the repercussions can be seismic.

Larry Warren, who claims he witnessed a UFO landing in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk in 1980 and later co-authored a book about the incident, has been accused of making the whole thing up.

Mr Warren has stood by his account – but his co-author Peter Robbins has said he feels ‘deceived’ and the publisher of their book has suspended distribution.

Nick Pope, a former UFO expert for the Ministry of Defence, has criticised Mr Warren over the incident.

Describing Mr Warren as an ‘attention-seeker’, Mr Pope said people who make up false stories are ‘crackpots, frauds and charlatans’.

He told Metro.co.uk: ‘While there can be many motivations for hoaxing, the most common one is attention-seeking. It’s a case of the nobody who wants to be a somebody.

‘In relation to UFOs it’s particularly effective because hoaxers are pushing at an open door, given that the UFO community has a strong will to believe.

 ‘Hoaxers take advantage of this by telling people exactly what they want to hear, shaping their lies to fit people’s existing belief system.

‘Mud sticks, and a single hoax can be remembered long after years of good quality research and investigation have been forgotten. The danger is that people throw out the baby with the bathwater, dismissing the UFO phenomenon as a whole.

‘The exposure of the Larry Warren fraud has damaged the standing of the case itself, even though most of the story is verified by declassified Ministry of Defence documents. But, for a while at least, all people will remember is ‘that guy who made up a crazy UFO story’.’

UFO experts agree that something mysterious happened in the forest in 1980

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Cosimo, the publisher of ‘Left at East Gate: A First-Hand Account of the Bentwater-Woodbridge UFO Incident, its Cover-Up, and Investigation’, has suspended distribution of the book.

In a statement, Cosimo said: ‘It has been brought to our attention that some of the experiences described in this book may be inaccurate or embellished.

 ‘As an independent publisher, we look for quality books in a wide range of genres from public affairs and personal development to history, philosophy and niche subjects such as ufology, and then make a determination whether these books fit well within our catalogue.

‘At this moment, we cannot be certain that Left at East Gate still meets this standard. Consequently, we have decided to suspend the distribution of this book, until the situation surrounding it has been clarified to our satisfaction.’

Mr Warren has insisted his version of events really happened.

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5 THINGS TO CONSIDER REGARDING THE PENTAGON UFO PROGRAM

JASON MCCLELLAN

Edward Snowden has a really good theory as to why we've never heard from aliens

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Pentagon's UFO Research Program Revelation Puts Spotlight On The UFO Phenomenon

This past weekend’s bombshell revelations regarding the Pentagon’s secret UFO research program has sparked a media frenzy surrounding the phenomenon which has produced some additional insights into the story.

The remarkable report published by the New York Times has received extensive coverage from national news outlets and catapulted UFOs to the forefront of the public consciousness for the first time in quite awhile.

Unlike many stories generated by the phenomenon, this particular tale seems to have taken hold in the zeitgeist thanks to the seriousness with which the US government has been revealed to take UFOs.

To that end, the response to the Pentagon’s confirmation has been largely curious rather than dismissive, although it has also spawned some thought pieces on the propriety of spending tax payer money on UFO research.

Amid the tidal wave of stories detailing Saturday’s Times piece, some intriguing new details about the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program have come to light.

Perhaps most tantalizing is that the group produced a 490-page report on their research that was ostensibly issued to the Department of Defense.

It is unknown what insights were contained within the report as well as whether or not it will be made available to the public.

Equally remarkable were some new insights into the “metal alloys and other materials” that were purportedly recovered and studied by the AATIP.

One of the Times’ reporters who penned the story elaborated on that aspect of the research in an interview with MSNBC.

Ralph Blumenthal explained that this “material from these objects that is being studied so that scientists can try and figure out what accounts for their amazing properties.”

Asked what type of material it is, he replied, “they don’t know. They’re studying it, but it’s some kind of compound that they don’t recognize.”

How the story unfolds from here remains to be seen, but there is hope in the UFO disclosure community that the tremendous public interest in the Pentagon’s admission can create momentum towards more revelations from the government.

More cynical observers and seasoned UFO researchers are taking something of a ‘wait and see’ approach as the constantly-churning news cycle may push the phenomenon back into the periphery before any progress towards answers can be achieved as has happened many times in the past.

And some concerned conspiracy theorists are already crying foul and warning people that the ‘threat’ aspect of the AATIP’s mission may be used to fabricate a ‘hostile ET’ narrative should this truly be the start of some kind of UFO disclosure.

While that may turn out to be the case, the attitude of many who have longed for UFO answers seems to be that they’ll cross that proverbial bridge when they come to it so long as they receive confirmation about ETs.

Ultimately it may take some time before we know if the Pentagon’s admission was a watershed moment in the march towards UFO disclosure or simply another maddening misstep leading us even further into the dark. By contributor Jeffery Pritchett host of the Church of Mabus radio show.

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NASA Shortlists Titan Quadcopter, Comet Sample-Return Concepts for 2020s Mission

Existence of advanced UFOs 'beyond reasonable doubt', says ex-Pentagon official who ran secret US government programme

Tom Embury-Dennis 

The existence of unidentified flying objects using technology more advanced than human capabilities has been proved “beyond reasonable doubt”, the former head of a secret US government programme has said.

Luis Elizondo, who quit as head of the Advanced Threat Identification Programme (AATIP) two months ago, warned nations now “had to be conscious” of the potential threat posed by UFOs.

Do UFOs exist? This former government employee thinks so

The unit, which the Department of Defence (DoD) insisted was terminated in 2012, produced documents that described sightings of aircraft travelling at extremely high speeds with no visible signs of propulsion.

“In my opinion, if this was a court of law, we have reached the point of ‘beyond reasonable doubt’. I hate to use the term UFO, but that’s what we’re looking at,” Mr Elizondo told The Telegraph. 

“I think it’s pretty clear this is not us, and it’s not anyone else, so one has to ask the question where they’re from.”

Mr Elizondo told the newspaper there were geographical “hot spots” – sometimes around nuclear facilities and power plants – which emerged during AATIP’s investigations, as well as common factors between UFO sightings. 

He said: “It was enough where we began to see trends and similarities in incidents. There were very distinct observables. Extreme manoeuvrability, hypersonic velocity without a sonic boom, speeds of 7,000mph to 8,000mph, no flight surfaces on the objects. A lot of this is backed with radar signal data, gun camera footage from aircraft, multiple witnesses.

“There was never any display of hostility but the way they manoeuvred, in ways no one else in the world had, you have to be conscious something could happen.” 

It comes after secret footage released by the Department of Defence (DoD) showed US fighter jet pilots as they tracked an unidentified aerial object gliding above the Pacific Ocean in 2004. The object had been detected appearing suddenly at 80,000 feet by the USS Princeton, a naval cruiser, which had been tracking mysterious aircraft for two weeks.

Commander David Fravor told The New York Times the object was about 40ft long, had no plumes, wings or rotors, and outpaced their F-18s. It was big enough to churn the sea 50ft below it, he said.

“I have no idea what I saw ... It accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen,” he added, admitting he was “pretty weirded out”.  

Mr Elizondo described Mr Fravor as a “national hero” for speaking out due to the “social stigma” attached to UFO sightings by military personnel. 

He said he had no preconceived ideas when he first took charge of the unit, but came to realise there were “probably not any type of aircraft in any national inventory” similar to the sightings. 

“I think it’s pretty clear it’s not us, and it’s not anyone else,” he added.

Mr Elizondo quit AATIP in October over what he believed was excessive secrecy surrounding the programme. 

In a resignation letter to James Mattis, the US Defence Secretary, he wrote: “Why aren’t we spending more time and effort on this issue? There remains a vital need to ascertain capability and intent of these phenomena for the benefit of the armed forces and the nation.”

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‘We may not be alone,’ says head of Pentagon UFO office

Experts warn there is usually a worldly explanation for apparent UFO sightings and caution that an absence of an explanation is not proof of aliens.

The Pentagon said AATIP closed five years ago when defence officials shifted funding to other priorities. But according to its backers, it remains in existence in some form. 

“The AATIP ended in the 2012 timeframe,” Pentagon spokesperson Laura Ochoa said. “It was determined that there were other, higher priority issues that merited funding and it was in the best interest of the DoD to make a change,” she added.

Asked if the department continued to investigate sightings, she said: “The DoD takes seriously all threats and potential threats to our people, our assets, and our mission and takes action whenever credible information is developed.”

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Pentagon bevestigt bestaan van geheim programma, toenmalige baas acht “bestaan van UFO’s onomstotelijk bewezen”

door jvh 

 Bron: THE TELEGRAPH 

Luis Elizondo 

FOTO: RR

Bestaan van geheim programma bevestigd door Pentagon

Tot twee maanden geleden hield Luis Elizondo kantoor op de vijfde verdieping van het Pentagon, waar hij leiding gaf aan het cryptisch genaamde Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (vrij vertaald: het Programma voor de Identificatie van de Dreiging van Geavanceerde Vliegtuigen). Dat programma - X-Files in het echt, zo u wil - bestaat al sinds 2007, maar het bestaan ervan werd pas vorig week onthuld en bevestigd door het Pentagon. Het AATIP-programma kreeg van het Amerikaanse Congres maar liefst 22 miljoen dollar aan “black ops money” (geld voor geheime operaties).

In een interview met de Britse krant The Telegraph benadrukte Elizondo dat veel van wat hij onthulde eigenlijk nog geklasseerde informatie was. Maar hij is stellig: “Als we in een rechtszaal zouden staan, zouden we volgens mij al lang het punt hebben bereikt waarop het bestaan van UFO’s als bewezen zou worden geacht. Het is vrij duidelijk dat wat wij allemaal hebben vastgelegd niet om Amerikaanse projecten gaat, en het gaat evenmin om buitenlandse projecten. Dan moet iemand toch de vraag stellen waar die vliegende objecten wél vandaan komen...” Elizondo weigerde echter een cijfer te plakken op het aantal geloofwaardige incidenten dat zijn dienst onderzocht en hoeveel getuigen ondervraagd waren, maar wilde enkel kwijt dat het er “heel veel” waren.

“Opmerkelijke trends”

Wat Elizondo wel wilde bevestigen, was dat er tijdens hun onderzoeken geografische hotspots opdoken, in de buurt van nucleaire faciliteiten en krachtcentrales. Ook het bestaan van gelijkenissen tussen de beweging van verschillende UFO’s werd door het Pentagon vastgelegd: “We begonnen na verloop van tijd trends te zien na verschillende incidenten. Trends zoals extreme manoeuvreerbaarheid, hypersonische snelheid zonder geluidsgolf, en snelheden van 11.000 tot 12.000 kilometer per uur. Dingen die we kunnen bewijzen met radar-data, camerabeelden uit onze vliegtuigen, en verschillende getuigen. Er was nooit sprake van vijandigheid, maar gezien hun ongewone manier van bewegen waren we ons ervan bewust dat er altijd iets kon mislopen.”

Meteen nadat het bestaan van het Pentagon-programma vorige week was onthuld, was er veel aandacht voor net vrijgegeven beelden van een UFO boven San Diego uit 2004. David Fravor, een Amerikaanse gevechtspiloot, beschreef het object toen als “een witte Tic Tac van ongeveer 12 meter lang en zonder vleugels, iets dat niet van deze planeet komt”. Elizondo loofde de piloot dan ook voor zijn durf: ”De man is een nationale held, want het sociale stigma hierover is ongelooflijk. Er zijn veel mensen als hem die op ons zijn afgestapt, maar hij durft zijn ervaring ook publiekelijk te bespreken.”

“Onzin uit spektakelwetenschap halen”

Elizondo benadrukte ook dat hij bij zijn aantreden als chef van het UFO-programma geen vaststaande overtuigingen had, maar dat hij later overtuigd werd door wat hij te zien kreeg: “Als inlichtingenofficieren zijn wij van nature sceptisch. Voor sommigen onder ons was er een “Aha-moment”, anderen werden dan weer enkel heel langzaam overtuigd dat dit vliegtuigen waren die niet voorkwamen in het arsenaal van eender welk land.”

Gaat het dan om buitenaards leven? “Ik wil geen uitspraken doen over waar die tuigen vandaan komen of wie er achter het stuur zit. Het lijkt me wel duidelijk dat wij het niet zijn. Maar wat wij deden was enkel de onzin uit spektakelwetenschap halen.” Elizondo wilde ook niet ontkennen of bevestigen of er al technologie uit dergelijke tuigen was gerecupereerd. Het is intussen wel zeker dat bepaalde gebouwen in de staat Nevada aangepast werden om als opslagplaats te dienen voor alles wat met UFO’s te maken had. Ook werd onderzocht of getuigen fysieke effecten ondervonden van wat ze hadden gezien.

Brief aan minister van Defensie

Hoewel het Pentagon bij het bevestigen van het bestaan van AATIP benadrukte dat het er de stekker al in 2012 had uitgetrokken, bestond het programma volgens Elizondo vijf jaar langer. “Als je een missie krijgt blijf je op post tot iemand anders je verantwoordelijkheid overneemt, maar dat gebeurde bij ons nooit. Dus werd van ons verwacht dat je blijft doen wat je moet doen.” Elizondo stapte in oktober echter zelf op, gefrustreerd door de aanhoudende geheimzinnigheid rond zijn dienst.

In een ontslagbrief gericht aan minister van Defensie Jim Mattis schreef hij: “Waarom spenderen we hieraan niet meer tijd en moeite? De nood om te onderzoeken tot wat deze fenomenen capabel zijn, en wat hun bedoelingen zijn, blijft hoog. Voor het goed van onze strijdkrachten en het land.”

Elizondo vraagt nu dan ook: “Steun dit programma. We willen dat de NASA leven vindt op andere planeten, maar onze hoogopgeleide piloten zien op onze planeet dingen die ze niet begrijpen.”

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UFOs caught on tape over Long Beach, California

I received this UFO video recently. This was filmed on 21st October 2017.

Witness report:

I saw a huge white orb over my house in Long Beach CA. At first I spotted two objects crossing path’s with each other then focused on the larger one. As I zoomed in on my camera the UFO started ejecting smaller spheres into the atmosphere. The first ejection formed a triangular formation! As I kept filming the object started emitting tons of orbs falling in a steady stream from the main object. There were at least 40 smaller spheres emitted from the main UFO. Interestingly the smaller orbs were only visible through my infrared camera. This was recorded with my full spectrum Canon SX60 with a monopod in my backyard in Long Beach CA.

The first part of the video shows the raw footage and the analysis of the capture is presented in the end of the video.

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The Universe is Far Bigger Than We Thought, and It Has 10x More Galaxies

It turns out the observable universe has at least 10 times more galaxies than the mid 1990s Hubble Deep Field images count of about 100 to 200 billion. The development of more advanced space telescopes in the future could unveil even more of the observable universe.

THE EXPANDED UNIVERSE

It turns out, what we call the observable universe — the part visible within our cosmological horizon, A.K.A. the final frontier — has at least 10 times more galaxies than the mid 1990s Hubble Deep Field images count of about 100 to 200 billion. But now the possible correct estimates have determined that the Universe holds more 2 trillion galaxies. (Before this calculation astronomers used to say “there could be more than 1 trillion galaxies in the universe.”)

Using collected data from various deep space images from the Hubble Space Telescope and other sources, an international team of scientists led by Christopher Conselice from the University of Nottingham, UK, created a 3D map of the known universe. Mathematical models were used to calculate for galaxies current telescopes cannot yet observe. These showed that, to make sense of the numbers and the maps, about 90% of galaxies are far, far away and too faint to be seen clearly.
The map recreates, as accurately as possible, different times in the universe’s history as far back as 13 billion years in its past. Accordingly, when the universe was several billion years younger than today, it contained 10 more galaxies per unit volume. Galaxies decrease in number (and increase in size) as the billion years go by. “This gives us a verification of the so-called top-down formation of structure in the universe,” Conselice explains.


This helps answer Olbers’ Paradox (why the night sky remains dark, despite the many stars). The myriad of stars within the billions of galaxies invisible to the human eye because of redshifting of light, the universe’s dynamic nature, and intergalactic dust and gas absorbing light. This keeps the night sky mostly dark — keeping the night sky mostly dark.
BIGGER SPACE FOR LIFE
“It boggles the mind that over 90% of the galaxies in the universe have yet to be studied. Who knows what interesting properties we will find when we observe these galaxies with the next generation of telescopes,” explains Conselice about the far-reaching implications of the new results.
The development of more advanced space telescopes in the future, beginning with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in 2018, would certainly help us see the observable universe clearly. Who knows what remains lurking just by that expanded frontier of space.
In any case, a larger known universe means an even wider space to accommodate the search for possible extraterrestrial life. Why not? Every time we think that we understand more of it, the universe seems to always surprise us with more.
References: www.spacetelescope.org, Space

Posted by Reality Beyond

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The Universe is Far Bigger Than We Thought, and It Has 10x More Galaxies

It turns out the observable universe has at least 10 times more galaxies than the mid 1990s Hubble Deep Field images count of about 100 to 200 billion. The development of more advanced space telescopes in the future could unveil even more of the observable universe.


THE EXPANDED UNIVERSE

It turns out, what we call the observable universe — the part visible within our cosmological horizon, A.K.A. the final frontier — has at least 10 times more galaxies than the mid 1990s Hubble Deep Field images count of about 100 to 200 billion. But now the possible correct estimates have determined that the Universe holds more 2 trillion galaxies. (Before this calculation astronomers used to say “there could be more than 1 trillion galaxies in the universe.”)

Using collected data from various deep space images from the Hubble Space Telescope and other sources, an international team of scientists led by Christopher Conselice from the University of Nottingham, UK, created a 3D map of the known universe. Mathematical models were used to calculate for galaxies current telescopes cannot yet observe. These showed that, to make sense of the numbers and the maps, about 90% of galaxies are far, far away and too faint to be seen clearly.
The map recreates, as accurately as possible, different times in the universe’s history as far back as 13 billion years in its past. Accordingly, when the universe was several billion years younger than today, it contained 10 more galaxies per unit volume. Galaxies decrease in number (and increase in size) as the billion years go by. “This gives us a verification of the so-called top-down formation of structure in the universe,” Conselice explains.


This helps answer Olbers’ Paradox (why the night sky remains dark, despite the many stars). The myriad of stars within the billions of galaxies invisible to the human eye because of redshifting of light, the universe’s dynamic nature, and intergalactic dust and gas absorbing light. This keeps the night sky mostly dark — keeping the night sky mostly dark.
BIGGER SPACE FOR LIFE
“It boggles the mind that over 90% of the galaxies in the universe have yet to be studied. Who knows what interesting properties we will find when we observe these galaxies with the next generation of telescopes,” explains Conselice about the far-reaching implications of the new results.
The development of more advanced space telescopes in the future, beginning with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in 2018, would certainly help us see the observable universe clearly. Who knows what remains lurking just by that expanded frontier of space.
In any case, a larger known universe means an even wider space to accommodate the search for possible extraterrestrial life. Why not? Every time we think that we understand more of it, the universe seems to always surprise us with more.
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UFO caught on camera before 'shooting off at high-speed' looks 'just like Millennium Falcon in Star Wars'

Christine Iskander, 57, was shocked when she spotted the bright white light in the night sky over County Durham

Christine Iskander, 57, was shocked when she spotted bright white light twinkling in the night 

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A dog walker claims she's snapped a UFO that looks JUST like Star Wars' Millennium Falcon.

Christine Iskander, 57, was shocked when she spotted bright white light twinkling in the night sky over Brandon, in County Durham.

She quickly grabbed her iPhone and managed to take a picture before it shot off at high speed.

"It was blinding, looking at it directly. It looked like a very brilliant white star to the naked eye.

"I thought it may be a helicopter at first but there was no sound,” said Christine, a civil servant.

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"Seconds after taking the photo the object shot straight up and then disappeared before I could get another photo.?

"The picture shows something quite different to what my eyes saw."

To her amazement when she enlarged the picture, the object appeared to resemble Han Solo's famous smuggling starship from the hit Star Wars movies, starring Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill.

It first appeared in the original Star Wars film in 1977, and re-appeared in The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Force Awakens, and The Last Jedi.

She sent the snap to investigator Philip Mantle, 54, of Pontefract, West Yorkshire, who said: "Although on the surface this photo doesn't look like much, when it has been enlarged it almost looks like the Millennium Falcon spaceship from Star Wars.

"Add to this the witnesses description you have to label this as a genuine UFO."

Photo analyst Jason Gleaves, an ex-RAF and BAE Airbus division employee in the UK, is baffled after studying the photo.

He said: "The witnesses said she was out alone walking her dog, the weather conditions had been fairly clear, and the sky had no other stars in view and no moon visible.

"The object appeared similar to a very brilliant white star to the naked eye and appeared travelling towards her. At first she thought it might have been a helicopter but couldn’t hear any distinguishing familiar sounds.

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• UFO 'which looks like the Star Wars Millennium Falcon' spotted in skies above New York

"Seconds after taking the original photograph the object shot straight up and then disappeared before she could get a second photograph. The image was taken using an apple iPhone 5 and the image transferred when a new phone was purchased.

"Upon analysing the original source image it appears to have defined structure. No known conventional aircraft can accelerate vertically from a standing hovering position without sound."

But this isn't the first time someone claims they have seen a Millennium Falcon-shaped object in the sky.

Last September a man and his girfriend believed they also said they saw a similar looking UFO in the sky near New York.

The man uploaded footage - filmed on August 4 - alongside the caption: "Me and my girlfriend were coming home at approx between 9 and 10 pm when we saw a light to our left.

"This thing was a complete lit surfaced craft.

"It wasn't blinking lights the entire surface of craft was lit up and glowing."

The video was shared on Mutual UFO Network .

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Aerospace Industry CEO and NASA Partner Claims There Are Aliens Living Among Us

According to Robert Bigelow, famous in the aerospace industry for the manufacture of inflatable modules such as those tested out at the International Space Station, there are extraterrestrial beings living among humans.

The NASA partner has said that he is ‘absolutely convinced’ aliens are living among humans on Earth.

During an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes, he said:

“I’m absolutely convinced [that aliens exist],” he told reporter Lara Logan. “That’s all there is to it.”

“There has been and is an existing presence, an ET presence,” Mr. Bigelow said. “And I spent millions and millions and millions – I probably spent more as an individual than anybody else in the United States has ever spent on this subject.”

His company, Bigelow Aerospace, is developing expendable spacecraft for humans that can inflate and may provide much-needed shelter for future astronauts and colonists in space, and other planets.

When asked about the risks that this declaration could represent for his public image, Bigelow was blunt:

“I do not give a damn,” adding that nothing he thinks, nor what the rest of the world thinks, can change this reality.

He was also questioned about his intentions to travel to outer space to contact extraterrestrial civilizations, an opportunity he took advantage of to return to his first statements: “The aliens are right in front of our noses,” he reiterated.

Bigelow said he had close encounters, here on Earth, although he refused to provide further details.

The majority of Americans, 54 percent, are convinced there are intelligent aliens out there, capable of communicating with us, according to a survey done in 2015, by marketing research firm YouGov.

However, despite the fact that more than half of Americans are convinced that aliens are out there and visiting Earth, scientists like Seth Shostak — a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute reiterate there is no ‘solid evidence’ that these visitors exist.

Shostak said in an interview with Live Science, “Well, if you really do think they’re here, then why is it that the evidence is so poor; if the evidence was so good, we wouldn’t be arguing about it, we’d be investigating it,” Shostak said.

“We have satellites monitoring the Earth all the time. And they don’t see these guys, and yet they’re apparently so visible that a random guy like Bob Bigelow can see them.”

However, world-renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking disagrees with Shostak, at least partially, and says that not only are aliens out there, but that they could destroy humanity.

Professor Hawking is quoted saying: “To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational” (Source)

Several astronauts have also spoken out about Aliens and whether or not they are among us.

“…I’ve been asked (about UFOs) and I’ve said publicly I thought they (UFOs) were somebody else, some other civilization.” µ

— Eugene Cernan, Commander of Apollo 17. The quote comes from a 1973 article in the Los Angeles Times. 

By Ivan, Ancient-Code.com

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Hoofd Amerikaans onderzoek: “Ufo’s vormen een potentiële bedreiging” - HLN.be

Bron: The Independent

Elizondo, die twee maanden geleden vertrok als hoofd van het Advanced Threat Identification Program (AATIP), het onderzoeksprogramma dat jarenlang door het Pentagon gevoerd werd, waarschuwt landen dat ze bewust moeten zijn van de potentiële dreiging van ufo’s.

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Vorige week raakte voor het eerst bekend dat piloten van een Amerikaans gevechtsvliegtuig aan de hemel een object hadden waargenomen dat met extreem hoge snelheid, zonder zichtbare voortstuwing, door de lucht zoefde.

Aan de krant The Telegraph gaf Elizondo nu meer uitleg over het geheim dat al die tijd verborgen werd gehouden. “Moesten we in een rechtbank zitten, dan zou ik zeggen dat we het punt van ‘elke redelijke twijfel’ bereikt hebben. Ik haat het om het woord ufo te gebruiken, maar het is wel datgene waar we nu mee geconfronteerd worden”, zei hij. “Ik denk trouwens dat het niet duidelijker kan: het zijn objecten die niet van de mens kúnnen zijn. Wij zijn het niet. En het is ook niemand anders. We moeten ons dus de vraag stellen waar ze dan wel vandaan komen, wie ze zijn.”

Met elkaar gelinkt

Elizondo heeft het in het interview ook over “geografische hotspots” - rond nucleaire installaties en elektriciteitscentrales - die in het onderzoek plots opdoken. “Er zijn ook overeenkomsten tussen verschillende waarnemingen. Elke observatie deed ons denken aan een andere observatie. Ze waren allemaal met elkaar gelinkt, onder meer door hun hoge snelheid, hun wendbaarheid. Maar ook hun vorm: er waren geen uiterlijke kenmerken die ons zeiden dat het ‘normale’ vliegende objecten waren - ze hadden geen vleugels bijvoorbeeld. Ze maakten ook geen geluid. Het kan allemaal worden gestaafd met radargegevens, geweercamerabeelden van vliegtuigen en meerdere getuigen.”

“We hebben ons nooit aangevallen gevoeld door de ufo’s, maar toch. Door de manier waarop die dingen door de lucht bewegen, moeten we wel rekening houden met het feit dat er wel eens iets kan gebeuren. We kunnen er met ons menselijke verstand niet bij en dat is gevaarlijk.”

Aan The New York Times verklaarde gevechtspiloot Fravor, die samen met een collega de waarneming deed, dat het tuig ongeveer 12 meter lang was, “geen vleugels, rotor of uitlaatpluimen” had en “groot genoeg was om de zee te beroeren toen het 50 meter boven het water hing”. “Het was een pak sneller dan onze F-18”, klonk het nog.

Het voormalige hoofd van het Amerikaanse onderzoeksprogramma ziet Fravor nu als een “nationale held”, omdat hij zich als militair durft uit te spreken over iets  waar altijd al een taboe op rustte. Elizondo zei het onderzoeksprogramma in oktober vaarwel, omdat hij er niet mee akkoord ging dat de waarnemingen zo overdreven geheimgehouden werden.

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Back in January 2007, I interviewed a man named Ray Boeche. Ray has an interesting background, as he is both a priest and a former state-director with MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network. At the time in question, I was thinking about writing a book on the infamous Rendlesham Forest UFO event of December 1980. I already knew that Ray had spoken to a couple of government insiders who had shared some pretty bizarre and amazing data with him on the incident. It was data that suggested at least a significant portion of the affair may have revolved around the use of sophisticated holograms, rather than anything extraterrestrial.

As I continued to chat with Ray, however, he told me something that I found even more intriguing. Ray revealed that his insider sources said they were attached to a classified program within the military-intelligence-government world that was seeking contact with what they termed “Non-Human Entities.” Or, NHEs for short. At first, the group suspected that the entities were extraterrestrial. As time went on, however, that theory was replaced by a far more controversial one. The group came to believe that they were dealing with nothing less than demonic entities from a literal Hell. But, apparently, that didn’t stop the group from trying to contact and interact with them.

Reportedly, and as a result of the group trying to work with demons, there were various deaths in the program (Ray told me that his sources personally showed him graphic photos of some of the dead), ill-health, and bizarre runs of bad luck. It was if the entire project was cursed. In fact, that is exactly what some of the members of the group came to believe.

When Ray told me all of this I found it far more fascinating than the Rendlesham idea. And, so, I decided to dig further into what was clearly a much stranger story, interviewing Ray at length and seeking out other sources, too. Most of the information I uncovered on this group – which used the nickname of “The Collins Elite” (I still don’t know its real name) – was published in my 2010 book, Final Events.

I don’t personally think that the NHEs are literal demons, but I do believe they are dangerous and manipulative entities from other realms of existence. However, for me the most notable and fascinating aspect of all this was the fact that some element of the U.S. Government was (and still is…) covertly funding the group, primarily those in government who adhere to the “Satanic UFO” angle. So, you may well ask, why am I mentioning all of this right now? I’ll tell you.

Take a look at this new interview with Senator Harry Reid (of the newly-outed UFO program story), in which George Knappbrings up the matter of those aforementioned “satanic UFOs,” and “fear based on religious beliefs” in relation to the intelligence community and UFOs. Knapp then brings up the matter of the UFO phenomenon being “evil.” Reid replies in an interesting way, as you will see. It’s only a short piece, about 5 minutes long, and the specific “satanic” angle comes towards the end.

All of this sounds very much like a brief reference to the Collins Elite and its work, beliefs and conclusions. Perhaps with a little bit more pushing, this new, ahem, revelation just might lead to the disclosure of more material and data on the Collins Elite and its work – most of which, from the 1990s onward, was connected to the human soul and an unclear agenda that the NHEs have for our souls. If you believe the NHEs are Satanic, of course.

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It Is Not Just About UFO Disclosure!

The recent news wave of the so-called UFO Disclosure via the New York Times, Harry Reid and Tom Delonge, is probably nothing more than a smokescreen to move secretly highly advanced technology from their “black world’ into the “white world” to justify the missing money ($21 Trillion) at HUD, NASA & the Department of Defense, used to fund the secret black budget projects.

After they have cleared up their major problem of the missing trillions, they will continue with their soft UFO disclosure program in such a way, that due to the possible release of highly advanced technology, many people will not look surprised anymore.

While a disclosure will not come as a surprise for the hardcore believers, obviously it will be a managed UFO and Alien disclosure especially intended for those that don’t know the truth to lessen the overall panic and confusion that will surely take place once this event (major TV event) happens.

A follow-up of their UFO disclosure agenda will be a possible request to the Senate to increase the funding of their space defense program to develop their already existing technology in a way that if it would come to an “alien threat” they are prepared to protect the people around the world. (Remember Wernher von Braun’s statement: “Their last card will be a threat from space.”

In the following interview, Grant Cameron of Whitehouse UFO and Stephen Bassett of Paradigm Research Group discuss the true agenda as well as the current UFO related topics occurring via mainstream news.

  

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Is That A Sleigh With Eight Reindeer Overhead? No… It’s A UFO

JAZZ SHAW

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Feds Reportedly Funded $22 Million On Secret UFO Program

The US government allegedly spent around $22 million funding in their apparent suspicion that the truth was out there. The New York Times reported that Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program remains in existence even though the Department of Defense decided to cancel the funding in 2012.

The program investigated sightings of fast moving aircraft with no visible sightings of propulsion or hovering aircraft with no apparent means of a lift, the Times reported. It also allegedly studied videos of encounters between American military plane and unknown objects.

According to the newspaper, the initial funding of the program came mainly at Sen. Harry Reid’s request. The senator is a Democrat from Nevada and has had a long-held interest in space phenomena, the Times reported. Just last week, Reid renewed his call for the federal government to fund UFO research in a tweet that linked to the report of the Times and borrowed the famous tagline from The X-Files “the truth is out there.”

In a subsequent tweet, Reid wrote if anyone says they have the answers, they are fooling themselves. He added that they do not know the answers, but they have plenty of evidence to support asking the questions. He stressed that this is about science and national security, and if the US does not take the lead in answering these questions, others will.

Reid, who retired from Congress this year, told the Times he was proud of the program saying that it is one of the good things he did in his congressional service. He believed he had done something that no one has done before.

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UFO Recorded On Video Apparently Chasing A Passenger Jet Above Brit Town

A video clip has emerged showing a UFO that is apparently pursuing a plane in the skies over Liverpool before suddenly darting out of view.

Witnesses said that the saucer-shaped UFO looked like a glowing yellow star but bigger. The object reportedly followed the passenger jet’s path, dodging in and out of clouds.

The footage was recorded in 2015 but came to light again after YouTube channel secureteam10 uploaded it recently to the video-sharing site. It now has more than 200,000 views.

The voice of self-proclaimed UFO analyst Tyler can be heard in the background of the video, explaining what took place.

According to Tyler, the footage shows a glowing or reflective object described as an orb. He notes that it is not an aircraft or a drone.

He further says that the UFO is tagging along, following the passenger jet. Right at the end, Tyler says that the UFO takes a steep nosedive, totally changes direction and vanishes.

A local witness on the ground said that it was bright and white light throbbing and pulsating from the mysterious aerial object.

At first, he thought it was a plane but later realised that it could not be because it was stationary.

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Did the United States keep crashed UFO remains stored away in modified buildings in Las Vegas?

“The company [involved in the DOD research] modified buildings in Las Vegas for the storage of metal alloys and other materials that … program contractors said had been recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena. Researchers also studied people who said they had experienced physical effects from encounters with the objects and examined them for any physiological changes. In addition, researchers spoke to military service members who had reported sightings of strange aircraft.”

Is UFO disclosure finally upon us? Are we really being lied to about UFO’s? And is there a slight possibility that the US government is actually stockpiling materials—belonging to Alien technology—in building in Nevada that scientists cannot identify?

Ever since Bob Lazar, an alleged scientist who worked in Area 51, reassured to the general public that there were extraterrestrial spacecraft recovered from which “reverse engineering” was performed, UFO scholars have accused the US government of keeping from society evidence we are not alone in the universe, and hiding in secret hangars evidence of aliens.

Now, after the recent news about a secret program that existed to study the UFO Phenomenon, the pot continues to uncover.

A fighter Jet chasing a UFO.

by RussellWSanders

In December of 2017, the New York Times published a shocking story that exposed how the Department of Defense (DoD) of the United States kept secret, from 2007 to 2012, a program with a budget of 22 million dollars to investigate UFOs.

From the published text, three points clearly stand out:

Countless highly-ranked individuals in the federal government know that UFOs are real and that aliens have visited our planet.

Military pilots have managed to record UFO encounters which show flying objects that display capabilities unlike any man-made vehicle in existence today.

In a series of buildings located in Las Vegas, the U.S. government stores the remains of alien technology and materials that are believed to come from, or are related to UFOs.

Despite the fact that the first two points mentioned above received an ample amount of coverage in media, the third—and perhaps most important—point was nearly ignored completely, the reason why one of the authors of the article published by the Times, recalled it in a television interview seen in the video below.

“They have in their possession, as we reported in the article, several materials belonging to these objects [the UFOs]. They have been studied by our scientists to learn more about their amazing properties and technology, “says Ralph Blumenthal in the interview conducted on the MSNBC news channel.

Mr. Blumenthal said the DoD “do not know” what the materials are made of.

“It’s some sort of compound they do not recognize,” he added.

According to the NY Times article;

“The company [involved in the DOD research] modified buildings in Las Vegas for the storage of metal alloys and other materials that … program contractors said had been recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena. Researchers also studied people who said they had experienced physical effects from encounters with the objects and examined them for any physiological changes. In addition, researchers spoke to military service members who had reported sightings of strange aircraft.”

While there is much information about the DOD research and the objects themselves, any questions remain in the open.

What type of metal alloys are we exactly talking about? What are the materials with exotic properties? At this point, it is noteworthy to mention the Roswell incident and what Bill Jr., son of one of the main witnesses (Mac Brazel) said to have seen from the alleged crash site: fragments of a strange material that, despite being “thin as a leaf”, was impossible to break, cut or burn and had the property to return to its original state.

This raises other questions; Are these types of materials those that are being kept away in the secret facilities spread across Las Vegas? And, is it possible that the study of these exotic materials may have contributed to our technological boom in recent decades?

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• NY Times

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BOEING

By Jay Bennett

Boeing today released a photo of its MQ-25 Stingray prototype, an unmanned carrier-based tanker aircraft. The U.S. Navy is looking for an unmanned tanker that can operate with existing carrier catapult launch and recovery systems. The MQ-25 will fly missions to extend the range of Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets, EA-18G Growlers, and F-35C Lightning II fighters.

A final request for proposals (RFP) was issued by the Navy in October, and proposals are officially due January 3, 2018. In addition to Boeing's bid, Lockheed Martin is expected to submit a proposal for the MQ-25 contract. General Atomics, which builds the MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper military drones, will also submit a bid, having revealed artist concepts of its tanker drone design in October shortly after the RFP was announced.

“Boeing has been delivering carrier aircraft to the Navy for almost 90 years,” said Don Gaddis, head of the refueling system program at Boeing’s Phantom Works, in a press release. “Our expertise gives us confidence in our approach. We will be ready for flight testing when the engineering and manufacturing development contract is awarded.”

Boeing's MQ-25 prototype will undergo additional engine tests before flight ramp and deck handling demonstrations that will be conducted on an aircraft carrier early next year. After the handling demonstrations, Boeing will need to launch the MQ-25 off a carrier deck for its first flight.

The image released by Boeing reveals robust landing gear for carrier operations and possibly a low-observable design, although stealth is not one of the primary requirements for the drone tanker. The Navy, however, has been researching a multitude of carrier-launched aerial drone systems for years, from surveillance to electronic warfare to strike operations. If Boeing secures the contract for the MQ-25 tanker, they could have a leg up for future Navy contracts for additional carrier-launched drone aircraft.

It is not clear whether the MQ-25 prototype from Boeing Phantom Works was designed with future drone configurations in mind. More information and photos of Boeing's MQ-25 should become available in the coming months as the company conducts additional tests. For now, we are just waiting to see an actual photo of General Dynamic's drone tanker, and of course, to see what Skunk Works has been busy cooking up for the competition.

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UFO-Pentagon Story Reflects Fundamental Problems

Mainstream news outlets jumped into the deep end of Billy Cox's Great Taboo. The New York Times, Politico and The Washington Post are among those reporting to have confirmed that Luis Elizondo, a career intelligence officer formerly with the Defense Department and currently of Team DeLonge, headed a UFO investigation project as claimed. The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, reportedly operational from no less than 2007 to 2012, was financed through black funding which included money funneled to Bigelow Aerospace, owned by longtime UFO enthusiast and controversial philanthropist Robert Bigelow. The remarkable circumstances published included the claim, "Under Mr. Bigelow’s direction, the company modified buildings in Las Vegas for the storage of metal alloys and other materials that Mr. Elizondo and program contractors said had been recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena."

An excerpt from his 2011 blog post titled, Strange Bedfellows:

In response to request for comment for this post, Carrion provided the following contribution:

In the fall of 2008, Robert Bigelow approached MUFON with an extraordinary business proposal – a subcontract from a Bigelow subsidiary called Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, LLC (BAASS) for MUFON UFO investigative services. The MUFON Board signed non-disclosure agreements and the negotiations began.

BAASS essentially wanted MUFON’s field investigators to conduct quality investigations of significant UFO cases, no expense spared, and then to feed those investigations to BAASS scientists. BAASS’ alleged goal for this endeavor was to acquire UFO super technology and then to file patents on this technology. The contract was signed in the spring of 2009 and ran for only a few months before the partnership withered and fell apart towards the end of the year.

Before, during and after this partnership, only one MUFON Board member, former MUFON International Director, John Schuessler, was ever made privy to the money source for the Bigelow subcontract. Now it is public knowledge, courtesy of investigative journalists, that this money came from a Pentagon black budget project.

What are we to make of this public disclosure of the Pentagon’s renewed forage into UFO investigation? If we look back in history when UFOs first hit the mass consciousness in 1947, the nascent U.S. Air Force investigated UFOs through a number of projects culminating in the last official investigation, Project Bluebook, which was killed off in 1969. That is, count it, 22 years of taxpayer dollars spent in the pursuit of “something” that was declared a non-threat to national security.

Fast forward to 2007 and the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) – funded allegedly at the behest of a politician and a billionaire who had a common interest in the phenomenon. Are we expected to believe that the Pentagon let almost 40 years pass in-between its investigations before deciding that UFOs were a potential threat? Did the billions of dollars spent prior on air defense against a Soviet, Chinese or rogue nation nuclear attack, or tracking the most minute space junk, simply not detect these UFO threats beforehand?

And is black budget money given out freely at the whim of any politician who wants to study their eccentric interests? Is there a black project currently looking into uncovering Barack Obama’s “real” birth certificate, or whether Ted Cruz’s father was really involved in the JFK assassination or one that is trying to determine how hundreds of thousands of Americans donned an invisibility cloak at the 2017 Presidential inauguration?

And will the disclosure of AATIP just spawn countless other conspiracy theories, like perhaps AATIP is just a shade of gray and that other competing and unacknowledged UFO projects are hidden even deeper in the murky world of black projects?

Today when science is sadly under attack, previously accepted facts take second place to rumor, innuendo and fantasy, and where the alleged leader of the free world spins daily conspiracies and has a severe allergy to the truth, what are we really to make of the Pentagon investigating what it has consistently called a nothing burger? Even after the AATIP was disclosed, some of the data it collected or is still collecting remains classified. Does that mean the American public will AGAIN only get half of the truth?

The question that every American should be asking their elected officials is what did the 22 million taxpayer dollars, earmarked for this black budget UFO investigation project, really buy them and how soon can we the people examine the ENTIRE merchandise? Even more importantly for Congress to investigate is the decision making rationale that led up to this project and why almost 40 years lapsed before UFOs were declared objects non grata in American airspace.

What an in-depth Congressional investigation may reveal is a deeper truth – one that as Sir Winston Churchill once described the former Soviet Union – is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. In reality, we are all tired of enigmas, mysteries and riddles – what Americans really want, indeed what the whole world wants, is just the ultimate truth, whatever that may be.

The MUFON-BAASS train wreck was not the first time activities involving the nonprofit, Bigelow, and cash accountability came under fire. At the turn of the century news leaked of what would become known as the Carpenter Affair. It was soon confirmed that John Carpenter, while serving as MUFON Director of Abduction Research, secretly provided Robert Bigelow data from case files of some 140 "alien abductees" for a reported $14,000. 

John Carpenter is among those who confirmed what he termed the discreet sharing of data, which reportedly included copies of recordings of hypnosis sessions conducted with the individuals. Carpenter explained during a 2012 email exchange that he confidentially provided the data to Bigelow for review by Bigelow and colleagues at the now dissolved Bigelow-founded National Institute for Discovery Science. Personnel of the Institute included Col. John Alexander, who, according to John Velez via UFO UpDates List in 2000, confirmed what Velez termed the "file sale," as did MUFON then-Executive Director Walt Andrus and Bigelow himself.

An excerpt from my 2013 blog post, The Carpenter Affair: For the Record:

The 140 people in question, who had sought support from Carpenter and MUFON, were not informed of the arrangement between Carpenter and Bigelow. The specific details of the primary motives and agendas behind the circumstances remain unclear.

"We may never know," Elizabeth Chavez Carpenter, former wife of John Carpenter and one of the 140, reflected during a December, 2013, telephone conversation. 

A lack of accountability is disappointingly common within the UFO community. Its members, often eager for new and intriguing information, frequently fail to question the bookkeeping of the messenger if they support the message.

A 1996 AP article which explored Bigelow's interests in the Skinwalker Ranch reported that Bigelow declined to be interviewed, while NIDS employee John Alexander stated details would not be provided of how or why research was being conducted. The article further indicated former ranch owner Terry Sherman, employed by Bigelow to maintain the property, chose not to comment because Bigelow had him sign a nondisclosure agreement.

Public trust of MUFON and its collaborators was substantially diminished due to a lack of accountability for the Ambient Monitoring Project. In 2008, long time MUFON and ufology staple Tom Deuley wrote in the MUFON UFO Journal how the approximately ten year-long effort was coming to fruition. Deuley explained funding was in hand to complete analysis already begun on data obtained from instruments placed in the homes of reported alien abductees. The idea was to monitor the environment and discern what, if anything, was physically taking place during alleged abductions. 

Much to the disappointment of a community eager to hear what happened, no conclusions were ever produced. Explanations were offered by a variety of involved parties as to why no final project report or even summary was published, all of which were inadequate, often contradictory to one another, and sorely lacking in professionalism.

The failed project involved a collaboration between some UFO organizations, including the Fund for UFO Research, which Deuley suggested in his 2008 article was a substantial influence. A review of the circumstances revealed, per the FUFOR website circa 1993,  "the Fund joined with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) to form the UFO Research Coalition to conduct major projects, at the suggestion of Las Vegas builder Robert Bigelow, who promised major funding." By 1994, it was further reported via the website, "disagreement over control of the UFO Research Coalition lead to a complete break with Robert Bigelow. Laurance Rockefeller appeared on the scene, ready to fund major projects through his intermediary, Mrs. Marie 'Bootsie' Gailbreath."

Further research and communications with men listed as members of boards of directors of the involved nonprofit corporations often produced the same inconsistent statements as made publicly, if not implying worse. A 2008 email inquiry to astrophysicist Dr. Richard Henry, listed at the time as a FUFOR board member on the org's website, resulted in the doctor responding he had not heard from FUFOR "in ages."

"Let me know if you find out anything!" he added.

Bottom Line

There is no substitute for an established fact, and facts cannot be established absent evidence available for public review. Some of the material supplied to those reporting on the UFO-Pentagon story, i.e., the DeLonge project, is relevant and offers some value as contributions to the UFO genre. The videos, for example, embody what, by definition, are UFOs. They deserve ample examination by qualified experts.

That stated, the public indeed has a valid complaint when taxpayer funds are used to obtain alleged materials that, as of this writing, are not readily available for review. The public also has a valid complaint when public nonprofit corporations, which enjoy tax benefits and offer tax deductions for donors, fail to adequately report their financial activities and agendas. 

What's more, some of the parties involved in the Pentagon saga have not only shown a willingness to avert from disclosing details of their activities, but an outright effort to conceal them. In doing so, the identities of funding entities have been concealed, financial reporting has been inadequate, and notification of the circumstances to involved parties has, at times, been nonexistent. 

Just because someone is an intelligence community asset doesn't make them inherently dishonest or nefarious. There are any number of people who assist the U.S. intelligence services in honorable manners. A primary point, as I see it, is that with all the half-truths, lack of accountability, and direct lies within the UFO community, it is impossible to discern the value of someone's claim if they don't produce the beef. Demand it or recognize the situation for what it often is: sizzle and no steak. It might also be unethical at times. The only way to know for sure is to actually find out, and you know what they say about fool me once...

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Scientists make surprising discovery after studying DNA of ancient Egyptian Mummies

Long story short? The first ever full-genome analysis of Ancient Egyptian mummies has shown they were closely related to populations from the Mediterranean. Some would say this is a history changer.

Even though scientists believed that Ancient Egyptian mummies were all our of DNA, they were wrong. A new study has revealed fascainting—and totally unexpected—results.

According to reports, the first ever full-genome analysis of Ancient Egyptian mummies has shown that they were more Turkish and European than Africa.

Experts studied ancient DNA from Egyptian mummies from around 1400 BC to around 400 AD finding that they shared genes with people who originate from the Mediterranean.

Experts discovered that ancient Egyptian mummies were closely related to ancient people in the Levant, modern-day Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel and Lebanon.

The discovery has come as a surprise to many experts.

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The sequencing success, reported in Nature Communications, “finally proves to everyone that there’s DNA preserved in ancient Egyptian mummies,” says Albert Zink, a biological anthropologist at the Institute for Mummy Studies in Bolzano, Italy.

According to sciencemag.org, he participated in a 2010 study that identified DNA sequences from 16 ancient Egyptian royal mummies, including Tutankhamun. But that study used polymerase chain reaction, a method that efficiently finds and extracts targeted DNA fragments but cannot always reliably distinguish between ancient DNA and modern contamination.

The researcher’s goals were to establish a comprehensive genetic database to study the ancient past of Egypt for the first time ever.

The ‘history-changing’ study was performed by Johannes Krause, a geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, using state-of-the-art sequencing methods to read stretches of any DNA present in a sample and fish out those that resembled human DNA.

Speaking to Mail Online, Johannes Krause said: “The population history of Egypt is complex because it is found at the ispus of Africa, the gateway to a continent, and has seen much historical turnover, Ancient Egypt in the 1millenium BC had been dominated by many foreign powers.”

“It has been much debated whether foreign dominations such as Assyrians, Nubians, Greeks or Romans changed the gene pool of ancient Europe, making them more or less African. “We wanted to test that and found that there is genetic continuity between the old kingdom and Roman period. However in the last 1,500 years, Egypt became more genetically African, whereas the ancient Egyptians showed almost no sub-Saharan African ancestry and high affinity to ancient Near Eastern and European populations,” Professor Krause added.

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. These 2017 discoveries could be big news, if they turn out to be true

Potentially key findings cover a wide range of topics, from a female Viking warrior to far-flung exomoons

BY CASSIE MARTIN 

 

RUMOR HAS IT  Researchers stirred up controversy this year by claiming that a skeleton discovered in a Swedish grave (excavation illustrated above) belonged to a Viking woman warrior. Other potentially big scientific discoveries also generated buzz — and disagreement — in 2017.

EVALD HANSEN, C. HEDENSTIERNA-JONSONET AL/AMER. J. OF PHYS. ANTHRO. 2017

Some reports from 2017 hint at potentially big discoveries — if the research holds up to additional scientific scrutiny.

1. Under pressure

Putting the squeeze on hydrogen gas turned it into a long-elusive metal that may superconduct, Harvard University physicists claimed (SN: 2/18/17, p. 14). A diamond vise, supercold temperatures and intense pressure made the element reflective — a key property of metals. But other researchers in the field don’t buy it; one experiment with a slew of caveats isn’t enough to confirm the claim, those scientists say.

2. Woman warrior?

The skeleton of a 10th century Viking woman buried in full warrior regalia has scientists sparring over women’s roles in Viking society (SN: 10/14/17, p. 6). Researchers who confirmed the skeleton’s sex through DNA analysis contend that the woman was a high-ranking Viking warrior, the first Viking woman warrior known. But other archaeologists argue that the bones — with no obvious signs of injury or strenuous physical activity — are too pristine to have seen battle.

3. Blink and you’ll miss it

A far-flung star’s extra wink, spotted in data from the Kepler space telescope and further probed by the Hubble Space Telescope, may be the first evidence for an exomoon — a moon orbiting a planet orbiting a distant star. If it exists, the Neptune-sized candidate moon (dubbed Kepler 1625b i) is roughly 4,000 light-years away and orbits a planet a tad larger than Jupiter (SN: 8/19/17, p. 15).

4. Rooting out hominid origins

The first members of the human evolutionary family may have originated in Europe, not Africa. New analyses of a fossilized jaw (shown) and teeth from Graecopithecus, a chimpanzee-sized primate that lived in southeastern Europe roughly 7 million years ago, suggest that it may be the earliest known hominid(SN: 6/24/17, p. 9). But more complete fossils are needed to determine whether Graecopithecus was truly a hominid.

Citations

B. Bower. Skeleton ignites debate over whether women were Viking warriors. Science News. Vol. 192, October 14, 2017, p. 6.

L. Grossman. Astronomers may have found an exomoon, and Hubble is going to check. Science News. Vol. 192, August 19, 2017, p. 15.

B. Bower. European fossils may belong to earliest known hominid. Science News. Vol. 191, June 24, 2017, p. 9.

E. Conover. New claim staked for metallic hydrogen. Science News. Vol. 191, February 18, 2017, p. 14.

Further Reading

L. Grossman. David Kipping seeks new and unexpected worlds. Science News. Vol. 192, October 14, 2017, p. 22

E. Conover. Dark matter still missing. Science News. Vol. 191, February 4, 2017, p. 15.

C. Crockett. Stellar vomiting produces dark galaxies, simulations suggest. Science News Online, December 2, 2016.

E. Conover. The pressure is on to make metallic hydrogen. Science News. Vol. 190, August 20, 2016, p. 18.

B. Bower. Viking-era woman sheds light on Iceland’s first settlers. Science News. Vol. 189, May 14, 2016, p. 13.

B. Bower. Untangling ancient roots: Earliest hominid shows new, improved face. Science News. Vol. 167, April 9, 2005, p. 227.

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UFO Expert warns: Attempting to scan ‘Oumuamua may ‘wake’ alien intelligence inside

Despite the fact that there are no direct indications that the mysterious interstellar object known as ‘Oumuamua is anything more than a weirdly shaped asteroid, there are many UFO experts who do not rule out the possibility that it may be an alien space probe.

The enigmatic asteroid—first thought to be a comet—zipped past our planet earlier this year.

Due to a number of characteristics, astronomers eventually decided it would be a good idea to take a closer look at ‘Oumuamua, in order to rule out the possibility that it is more than just a space rock.

Recently, the Breakthrough Listen project used the world’s largest radio telescope to scan the mystery objects for any radio singles it may be emitting. Even though initial scans did NOT reveal anything being emitted from the space rock, a leading Ufologist believes we shouldn’t rule out ‘Oumuamua as an alien probe just yet.

According to Nick Pope, the former head of the Ministry of Defense’s UFO project, even though we haven’t picked up any signals from ‘Oumuamua yet, our scans may have ‘woken the alien intelligence’ inside it. Mr. Pope warns that this move may have turned Aliens toward us, and they may be now watching us.

Speaking in an interview with Sun Online, Mr. Pope said that even though scans haven’t revealed anything yet, we can’t rule out ‘Oumuamua is an alien probe.

“While nothing has been found yet, there’s another intriguing possibility: If this ship is an alien probe, it’s possible that our scans will awake the intelligence inside.”

Some argue that ‘Oumuamua may be an alien probe sent out by an advanced alien civilization to keep an eye on our world.

Whether or not we are looking at an alien space probe is still a mystery.

Mr. Pope added:

“Simply put, any alien ship searching for life may go into a dormant mode until it gets close to an inhabited planet.

“But what’s fascinating about this theory is just how many astronomers and other scientists are taking the idea seriously.

“It’s a sign of how accepting we are these days about the likelihood of finding alien life”

Many consider ‘Aliens’ and ‘UFOs’ a conspiracy theory, even though here is sufficient evidence that shows how worldwide governments have taken the idea more seriously in recent decades. Evidence of that is the recently revealed detail about the Pentagon’s secretive UFO research program that had staggering $22 million dollars budget to research UFO’s and whether or not they pose a threat to National Security.

Speaking about the Pentagon’s secretive UFO research program, Mr. Pope said:

“It’s an amazing revelation, not least because it directly opposes the many specific denials that the US government has issued previously when asked about this subject and their involvement in it.”

“The take-home message here is that there’s probably something out there, but we don’t know what it is.”

Returning to the ‘Oumuamua subject, Mr. Pope argues that it may very well be an alien probe disguised on purpose as an asteroid saying that: “Since there’s no air in space, an alien spaceship would not need to be designed in the same way that our aircraft have to be.”

“Rather than building an interstellar spacecraft from scratch, it makes perfect sense to take an asteroid and then build your ship around it, or hollow it out and build inside it, for the protection you’d derive from being surrounded by so much rock.”

Source: SPACE INVADERS Advanced alien probes could be watching our every move, warns former MoD UFO investigator

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Cosmic Crash That Knocked Uranus Sideways Also Made Its Moons

Weird World: Evaporating Exoplanet's Orbit Is Misaligned

A lot of unexplained metal artifacts found all over the world, without being able to explain their origin the modern scientists feel thoroughly baffled.

Are these unknown metal objects proof that we have been visited by otherworldly beings? Or may be extraterrestrials teach our ancestors secrets of metallurgy that we are just now beginning to develop and reproduce?
Perhaps by examining these strange metal objects, we may begin to understand our past, let’s have a look at 5 of the most bizarre metal artifacts ever discovered.

1 – 250,000-Year-Old Piece of Aluminum

A chunk of aluminum is on display at the National Museum of Transylvanian History in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

The piece measures 20 cm (7.8 in) by 12.5 cm (4.9 in) by 7 cm (2.8 in) and looks like something one might dig up while excavating to put in a foundation for a building. The details of the discovery were never made public at the time because it was pulled out of the earth in communist Romania in 1973.

According to tests, the object is made of 12 metals, 90% aluminium, and it was dated by Romanian officials as being 250,000 years old. The initial results were later confirmed by a lab in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Conspiracy theorists suggest object is actually part of a UFO and proof of visitation by an alien civilisation in the past.

2  – Ulfberht Sword

Dozens of these swords—made with metal so strong and pure it’s baffling how any sword maker of that time could have accomplished it—have been found in Europe, along with some knock-offs. They are all marked with the Ulfberht name and two crosses, though some of the imitations are missing a letter here or there.

The Ulfberht sword was made of steel which has a carbon content of up to 3 times more than the average medieval steel. Today, it is the same material used years ago, that is called crucible steel. According the age of the sword the making of crucible steel has started in the medieval era. It is indeed surprising that how this happened. Crucible steel was not around in Europe until the Industrial revolution which took place in the 18th century.

3 – The Mythical Lost Metal of Atlantis

In 2015, 39 roughly-cast lumps of an unusual red-gold metal were recovered from the sea floor 300m off the coast of Gela in southern Sicily. The metal was identified as  orichalcum, which was said by Ancient Greeks to be found in Atlantis.

Divers uncovered another 47 ingots from the mud which present unique finding. Scientists claim nothing similar has ever been found yet, orichalcum was mentioned only in some ancient texts and ornamental objects. Indeed orichalcum has long been considered a mysterious metal, its composition and origin widely debated.

Today most scholars agree orichalcum is a brass-like alloy, which was made in antiquity by cementation. This process was achieved with the reaction of zinc ore, charcoal and copper metal in a crucible, which requires modern technology and advance knowledge.

4 – The Betz Mystery Sphere

This bizarre, allegedly self propelled, seamless metallic orb was discovered by members of the Betz family in 1974, and rapidly became the object of fascination, controversy and alarm for scientists, military officials, ufologists and the general public as the story of this mystery sphere spread like wildfire through the international media.

During inspecting the damage caused by a brush fire that had raged across an 88-acre swathe of woodland Betz family stumbled across a peculiar highly polished, metal orb that was just under 8-inches in diameter. The only delineating mark that the three could find on the eerily unblemished object was an elongated triangular shape stamped into its surface.  Terry Betz decided to heft the 22 lbs., bowling ball sized sphere into their car and take it back home.

And that’s when the Betzes’ lives changed.

It began when Terry was playing guitar. The family reported that the ball strangely resonated the music. And then it began to move around, all on its own. The Betzes experimented with it, placed it on their table, and watched it navigate its own way around the perimeter without falling off. Doors began slamming themselves around the house. Mysterious organ music filled the residence, even though there was no organ. This seemingly impossible defiance of the laws of Newtonian gravity left the Betz tribe thoroughly baffled.

Puzzled by the bizarre sphere, the US military examined it and found it was made of high-grade steel and X-rays revealed there were three smaller balls inside, the object’s origin remains a mystery.

5 – Kera UFO

During the summer of 1972, a similar to Betz metal sphere (though not spherical) anomalous object plagued a group of teens who repeatedly managed to capture and lose a small, self propelled, evidently intelligently guided device over a vexing 4-weeks period in the Kera area of Kōchi City, Japan.

The silver, hat-shaped object weighed 1.3 kilograms (3 lbs) and measured roughly 7 centimeters (3 in) tall and 15 centimeters (6 in) in diameter. The bottom surface was perforated with an array of tiny holes and imprinted with designs depicting what appeared to be a bird, some waves, and another flying object. Something rattled around inside the object when shaken.

The strange device came to be known as the Kera UFO. This object’s movements also defied logic and appeared to be motivated by self preservation “instincts.”

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UFO Mysteries: These Sightings Have Never Been Solved

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"What people sometimes don't get about science is that we often have phenomena that remain unexplained," said an astrophysicist at MIT http://nyti.ms/2oDSel5 

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Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program

The shadowy program began in 2007 and was largely funded at the request of Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader, who has had a longtime interest in space phenomena.

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VIDEOS. Le Père Noël ? Un ovni ? Un missile ? Le lancement d'une fusée de SpaceX offre un spectacle troublant dans le ciel californien

La société américaine SpaceX a lancé vendredi dix nouveaux satellites de communication de la société Iridium avec sa fusée Falcon 9, le quatrième lancement sur huit prévus par SpaceX pour le compte de cette entreprise.

"Ca va faire flipper tellement de gens à Los Angeles." "Regarde comme ça brille ! Oh mon dieu !" "Waouh !" Smartphones et caméras à la main, les témoins n'en croient pas leurs yeux : lancée par la société américaine Space X vendredi 22 décembre, une fusée Falcon 9 a illuminé le ciel du sud de la Californie, aux Etats-Unis.  

Une trainée blanche dans la nuit, qui s'étire et s'allonge pour prendre la forme d'une méduse fumeuse parmi les étoiles... Le spectacle, visible jusque dans l'état voisin de l'Arizona, a intrigué de nombreux internautes, comme le rapporte le magazine Time. En effet, ceux qui n'étaient pas au courant du lancement prévu par SpaceX ont pu s'imaginer une invasion extraterrestre. 

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.ashley.

✔@AshleyEsqueda

Look at the Space X launch!! https://twitter.com/jimicroker/status/944379922205642752 …

Ry Crist

✔@rycrist

Freaked some folks out at Disneyland. pic.twitter.com/KOLhcdcqXj

2:45 AM - Dec 23, 2017

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"Les extraterrestres existent et s'en est fini de l'espèce humaine", a tweeté un témoins, tandis que d'autres s'interrogeaient sur la possibilité qu'il s'agisse tout simplement du Père Noël. 

blake@Yungasshat

Aliens are real and it's over for mankind

4:54 AM - Dec 23, 2017

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Heureusement, une simple passage sur les réseau sociaux a pu rassurer les internautes. Et nombreux étaient ceux à savoir qu'il s'agissait simplement d'une fusée. 

Mike Paule@Mikep29

Special light show over Southern California as the Space X Delta 9 rocket streaks upward in the sky! #spacex#vanderbergrocketlaunch

2:44 AM - Dec 23, 2017

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. Sirish .@SirishM

That was simply beautiful #SpaceX #Falcon9 in the skies above Orange county

2:48 AM - Dec 23, 2017 · 5 South

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La théorie du complot ?

Si certains ont eu un peu peur, d'autres ont préféré en rire, mettant en doute la version officielle - le lancement prévu de SpaceX - afin de propager une théorie du complot. "SpaceX est une couverture pour les extraterrestres", a ainsi lancé un internautes, sur Twitter. "Il s'agissait bien d'extraterrestres", a même confirmé Elon Musk, le patron de SpaceX. 

Et ce dernier d'ajouter, ironique : "Un extraterrestre nucléaire en provenance de Corée du Nord."  

Elon Musk

✔@elonmusk

Nuclear alien UFO from North Korea

3:50 AM - Dec 23, 2017

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A ‘UFO sighting’ briefly freaked out the West Coast. There was an earthly explanation.

By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. 

The people of Los Angeles can be forgiven if they were a little quick to jump to extraterrestrial conclusions.

The government did, after all, just admit that it had spent $22 million to investigate unidentified flying objects. And after 70 years of keeping the government installation known as Area 51 under wraps, Uncle Sam conceded that, yes, it did exist, and yes, some super-secret stuff went on there.

So, it’s perfectly logical that Angelenos gazing into a darkening sky around 5:30 p.m. Friday would assume their city was in the midst of an alien invasion as they saw this:

Aleen@SoCalAleen

What... in the world???? #DTLA

2:34 AM - Dec 23, 2017 · Perch

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Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur who ultimately wants to put people on a space-bound Megabus, fanned the flames by saying on Twitter that the jellyfish-like shape in the sky was a “nuclear alien UFO from North Korea.”

Southern Californians and other people out West, well, freaked out.

Jan Brewer, whose Twitter profile succinctly identifies her as “Arizona’s 22nd Governor” tweeted that she was wondering what the lights over Phoenix were. For some reason, she tagged President Donald Trump.

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Jan Brewer@GovBrewer

Just wondering what these lights were over the city of Phoenix just now... @realDonaldTrump @POTUS

2:44 AM - Dec 23, 2017

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And many, many others pointed their smartphone cameras skyward, capturing what they assumed was the first sign of the alien apocalypse — or something —  and musing about the vapory lights in the sky.

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Joe Mozingo@joemozingo

What the hell is this?

2:34 AM - Dec 23, 2017

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Brandi Cyrus

✔@BrandiCyrus

Is there a UFO in LA or what? Flying in tmrw and would like to be forewarned if aliens have invaded.

5:31 AM - Dec 23, 2017

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Austin@AustinLatest

When #SpaceX says that was their rocket and not a UFO....

4:41 AM - Dec 23, 2017

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There was, of course, a perfectly reasonable explanation.

Musk’s SpaceX had launched an Irdium-4 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California — about 150 miles from the City of Angels.

According to the Los Angeles Times, officials had warned that people would be able to see the launch across Southern California and elsewhere on the western half of the country. There was even a live webcast for those with more than a passing interest in rockets.

The moment a SpaceX rocket launch produced a shining, billowing streak in the sky over California

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying 10 satellites into orbit, left behind a trail of mystery and wonder as it soared into space after lifting off in the setting sun from coastal Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

[ The government admits it studies UFOs. So about those Area 51 conspiracy theories … ]

But for most people, there was just confusion, awe and maybe a little bit of panic.

And as Musk pointed out in the wee hours of Saturday morning, people along the East Coast can freak out next month.

Elon Musk

✔@elonmusk

If you liked tonight’s launch, you will really like Falcon Heavy next month: 3 rocket cores & 3X thrust. 2 cores return to base doing synchronized aerobatics. 3rd lands on droneship.

10:10 AM - Dec 23, 2017

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A test launch of that rocket, which Musk hopes will someday lead to missions to Mars, will launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

[ It’s not a joke: A Tesla is loaded onto SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket ]

What we know — and don't know — about aliens and UFOs

The Post's Cleve Wootson explains why a recent admission from the government is like pouring kerosene on UFO conspiracy theories. (Video: Monica Akhtar/Photo: Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)

This post has been updated.

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'UFO invasion' in California was a nuclear alien sent by North Korea, claims Elon Musk

DRAMATIC footage that illuminated the night sky with a luminous blue trail could be a “nuclear alien UFO” sent by “North Korea” according to SpaceX founder Elon Musk.

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